Just stunning! I can visualize the metallics.

Beautiful!!! Your fabrics are so elegant. I made myself put mine away till I finish all my Christmas quilting - almost there- lol.

What a stunning quilt. I love the fabrics. Are you going to quilt this?

Well it's a first for me finishing ahead of schedule. What you can't see in the photo is many of these fabrics are silver metallics. I've been an admirer of Sue's work for years so I knew I had to make a Halo quilt. I'm not good at following instructions, so I got lucky being as it finished at 82 inches.

Congratulations!! Mine measured 86X86, I'm sure I just got lucky!

I have finished the quilt top (used the kit) and I'm working on piecing the backing. My quilt top measures 84" square, not 86". I have measured it twice. Not sure where I went wrong as all the borders fit perfectly.

sguenther, how much did your quilt top measure?

Thanks.

Irene

sguenther, glad you could easily figure it out. Everyone who has gotten this far should now know how to determine the size floaters need to be to join outer borders to the inner quilt center--not just for this quilt, but for all your quilts going forward. That is one of the beauties of a project like this--it teaches you a lot about the entire quiltmaking process.
If you want a detailed refresher on the process of figuring out what size to cut the "floater borders", I have a Tutorial on that here:
bbquiltmaker.blogspot.com/2016/04/tutorial-magic-of-floater-borders.html

For those who are eager for the cornerstone blocks--they are 6" finished stars. Sue's directions are for paper piecing and I'll write about that for the December 1 blog post. I did one that way and the rest with regular, standard piecing. The units in this 6" star are 2" units, Half Square and Quarter Square Triangles--very easy to figure out.

My last floaters were a total of 1.5" finished. I measured the mountain borders and then the actual quilt and subtracted to know that the width needed to be, for me it was 1.5". I don't know if that is actually how it should be done but all sides fit perfectly. For the corners I just looked at the photo from our first BOM and knew it had to measure 6.5". Using a piece of typing paper I made a 6" square with .25 seams around the outside, then broke it into 2" squares. After all of the piecing we have done since January this part was VERY easy and FAST. I wanted to get this project finished before the holiday rush.

My longarm quilter does amazing modern work, she is going to have fun quilting this one!

Where did you get the instructions for the four corners?? That and the last floater is all I have left.

what was the size( width) of your last floater? That is all I need to finish my Halo quilt.

So here I am so far with Halo. I have chosen not to do the pinwheels and opted for the string of pearls. I know someone on this site showed their's and I loved it. So I am sewing those up this weekend. Happy with the results so far.

Sharon, in Warm Today, Colorado

Very nice and great you are completed.

Oh Squenter! Your finished top is wonderful. Congratulations on finishing. Mine is at the flying geese round. I have swapped out the geese for another design and probably will be doing the same for the delectable mountains round.
So...what are you considering for the quilting? I, too, send quilts out to be long-armed when they are big. However, I have only selected all over computer driven designs, due to the cost of hand done designs. I can't imagine this quilt with an all over design. Are you going to have it customized?
Holly

Sguenther, beautiful job! Glad you enjoyed and learned from this quilt.

I will continue to provide support and a monthly blog post of tips and tricks for the 2018 BOM. Mine will have a few alterations, now to figure those out.

We will be eager to see your quilt when it's quilted.